People who make clothes need to get their numbers right. From the length of fabric to the size of a pair of jeans, math plays an important role in the fashion industry. In Fashion Math, you'll learn some of the ways the math you learn in the classroom is important on the catwalk. You may even want to use that math to try your hand at making your own clothes!
For readers who may be more interested in fashion than in math, this book highlights how math is useful and necessary for designing clothes, purchasing materials, sewing, and altering clothes, and running a fashion business. The Try It Yourself feature offers word problems to reinforce the fashion world relevance of math, while intriguing sidebars provide fun facts, historical perspectives, and information about modern designers. Each word problem focuses on a grade five Common Core skill. Topics covered include geometry (calculating volume); fractions (using equivalent fractions to add and subtract); measurements; and operations with decimals up to the hundredths place.
You wear clothes every day, but are you aware of how much math is involved in creating the outfits you put on? How Fashion Designers Use Math colorfully illustrates how designers use math to measure, create, and produce their fashions.
For readers who may be more interested in fashion than in math, this book highlights how math is useful and necessary for designing clothes, purchasing materials, sewing, and altering clothes, and running a fashion business. The Try It Yourself feature offers word problems to reinforce the fashion world relevance of math, while intriguing sidebars provide fun facts, historical perspectives, and information about modern designers. Each word problem focuses on a grade five Common Core skill. Topics covered include geometry (calculating volume); fractions (using equivalent fractions to add and subtract); measurements; and operations with decimals up to the hundredths place.
Girls can move to the head of the class with math puzzles to help them pass! Packed with all kinds of puzzles and problems geared toward the stylish girl, this book gives girls creative ways to add, subtract, multiply, and divide their way to a good time. Girls are invited to join in the fun as Isabel and her friends from Innerstar University give their math skills an arithmetic makeover. Plus, this book includes a special access code for even more skill-building activities online.
In the American Mathematical Society's first-ever book for kids (and kids at heart), mathematician and author Richard Evan Schwartz leads math lovers of all ages on an innovative and strikingly illustrated journey through the infinite number system. By means of engaging, imaginative visuals and endearing narration, Schwartz manages the monumental task of presenting the complex concept of Big Numbers in fresh and relatable ways. The book begins with small, easily observable numbers before building up to truly gigantic ones, like a nonillion, a tredecillion, a googol, and even ones too huge for names! Any person, regardless of age, can benefit from reading this book. Readers will find themselves returning to its pages for a very long time, perpetually learning from and growing with the narrative as their knowledge deepens. Really Big Numbers is a wonderful enrichment for any math education program and is enthusiastically recommended to every teacher, parent and grandparent, student, child, or other individual interested in exploring the vast universe of numbers.
This best-selling textbook meets the needs of students who will be directly or indirectly involved in the activities of merchandising and buying at the retail level. Mathematics for Retail Buying explains the essential concepts, practices, procedures, calculations, and interpretations of figures that relate to producing profitable retail buying and selling operations. Now in its seventh edition, the text has been reorganized and expanded to provide real world examples that reflect current industry practices and trends. A companion CD-ROM, now containing all practice problems from the text, allows hands-on practice computing retail buying functions and setting up formulas in spreadsheet format. PLEASE NOTE: Purchasing or renting this ISBN does not include access to the STUDIO resources that accompany this text. To receive free access to the STUDIO content with new copies of this book, please refer to the book + STUDIO access card bundle ISBN 9781501395314. STUDIO Instant Access can also be purchased or rented separately on BloomsburyFashionCentral.com.
Stop wondering what to wear and Wear. This. Now. That first date, job interview or dinner with your future in-laws may be stressful, but figuring out what to wear for it shouldn't be. And thanks to style expert Michelle Madhok and the editors of shefinds.com, it isn't. Members of the team behind shefinds.com make a living putting the perfect outfit together (at the right price), and they've taken the guesswork out of getting dressed. From basic essentials to special events, learn how to build a foolproof wardrobe—without breaking the bank—and look stylish for every season, every occasion, every single day of the year. Get the inside scoop on: – Designer deals and steals – When to invest and when to spend less – The essentials for every season – Over 350 outfits for any style conundrum – Navigating the sales racks—and seasons!—like a pro
Cooking is a kind of science—you have to get the measurements right to make everything work. It takes math. In Culinary Math, you'll discover how numbers, ratios, and other math help make tasty foods you can cook yourself.